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Sun seeds StarOffice user base
News In Australia, Sun is offering educational and non-profit institutions almost unlimited rights to use its suite of office productivity software StarOffice 6.0 for a nominal fee, believing that it will "sow the seeds" for a large enterprise user-base.
[October 18, 2002, 11:58]
Sun expands StarOffice giveaway
News Sun Microsystems will give away its StarOffice software to ministries of education in Europe and Africa, the company is expected to announce Tuesday, in an effort to undermine rival Microsoft. Sun is committed to giving the global education...
[September 17, 2002, 8:41]
Sun scores StarOffice deal in Canada
News Sun Microsystems has recruited one of its biggest customers yet for its StarOffice software, signing a contract with the Ontario Ministry of Education covering 2.5 million students. Under its education and research program, Sun provides copies of...
[June 8, 2004, 9:05]
Sun launches StarOffice 8
News Sun released StarOffice 8, the next version of its office productivity application that provides improved compatibility with Microsoft Office files, on Tuesday. The latest version of StarOffice offers improved compatibility with Microsoft Office...
[September 27, 2005, 16:05]
Sun aiming StarOffice at mainstream
News Sun Microsystems' StarOffice software package, a competitor of Microsoft Office, is moving more toward the mainstream with the coming release of version 6, Sun chief operating officer Ed Zander said on Wednesday.
[March 28, 2002, 9:55]
Sun muddies StarOffice plans for OS X
News Sun Microsystems, in an email sent to an open-source mailing list on Thursday, backpedaled on working with Apple Computer on the development of a Mac OS X version of StarOffice. In the email, Tony Siress, Sun's senior director of desktop marketing...
[August 2, 2002, 7:56]
Sun rents out StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems plans to sell Japanese customers a subscription version of its StarOffice productivity software, Sun executives announced on Thursday. But starting from next month, Japanese consumers will be able to buy a one-year licence to use...
[January 16, 2004, 7:25]
Sun releases beta of StarOffice 6.0
News Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled the beta of StarOffice 6.0, a streamlined version of the company's free office software that's aimed to gain ground against Microsoft's Office. Sun made the software free just after acquiring StarOffice from...
[October 2, 2001, 17:49]
Sun's StarOffice adds native Mac support
News With its latest version, Sun is adding native Mac support to its StarOffice productivity suite. Sun may add that ability if the market requires or requests it, said StarOffice product manager Iyer Venkatesan, but there are no immediate plans to add...
[November 18, 2008, 9:50]
Sun scores StarOffice deal in Canada
Talkback OpenOffice.org isn't based on an early version of StarOffice. StarOffice is simply the commercial version of OpenOffice.org. It would be more accurate to say that the current release of StarOffice is based on a recent version of OpenOffice.org!
[June 8, 2004, 12:56]
Sun launches StarOffice 8
Talkback Scott McNealy is a liar! At his keynote speech at the 1998 Java Business conference he said (repeatedly.many many times) that Star Office would always be 100% free. Well Pony Up Scott!
[September 27, 2005, 17:06]
Sun launches StarOffice 8
Talkback That (Scott McNeally's promise) was before they realised that for some bizarre reason people wanted to pay for it. Virtually the same software is still available 100% free from OpenOffice.org. The thing which still astonishes me is that the biggest...
[September 28, 2005, 14:23]
Sun StarOffice
Downloads StarOffice 8 software is an easy to use office productivity suite with powerful word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities. Based on open source technology, OpenOffice.org, StarOffice 8 runs on Windows, Linux and...
[October 3, 2005, 8:00]
Sun adds price tag to StarOffice 6.0
News Sun Microsystems will bundle StarOffice 6.0, its productivity software, with additional services and support to make the package more attractive when it begins charging for the tools next month. The paid strategy is a new one for StarOffice, which...
[March 21, 2002, 13:59]
StarOffice meets Star Wars
News In a significant win for open source desktop productivity suites, Sun Microsystems Monday announced that the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) would implement up to 25,000 units of its StarOffice 5.2 software.
[June 26, 2001, 14:50]
StarOffice designer launches software firm
News Marco Boerries, who developed Sun Microsystems' StarOffice office suite, is set to unveil his new venture at CeBIT on Tuesday. Boerries joined Sun in 1999 after the computing giant bought StarDivision, Boerries' company that made StarOffice.
[March 12, 2002, 13:52]
StarOffice 8 set to shine
News Sun plans to release its next version of StarOffice in July, bringing new compatibility with its chief competitor, Microsoft Office. Sun's new version of StarOffice, called StarOffice 8, will include "dramatically improved Microsoft Office...
[May 3, 2005, 9:10]
Sony dumps MS Office for StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems announced a deal on Wednesday to install Sun's StarOffice software on some European Sony PCs, marking another defection from dominant Microsoft products. By the end of the year, Sony will include version 6.0 of StarOffice on most...
[December 6, 2002, 7:24]
OpenOffice.org 2.0 review
Reviews OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the open-source version of Sun's StarOffice 8 desktop suite, which costs £47.36 (inc. In 2000, Sun made the StarOffice source code publicly available and invited the open-source community to join Sun's developers in shaping...
[December 7, 2005, 12:00]
Free Office suite on verge of a million downloads
News Sun offers StarOffice for free over the Internet in the hope of pulling users away from Microsoft Office, which can cost upward of £180 in the High Street. StarOffice, the much-lauded free alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office software...
[November 2, 1999, 11:28]
